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I quit smoking through hypnosis - and if I can do it, anyone can do it. It cost around $50 for the session, and boy, was it easy!

I quit smoking for about two hours. Yes, that's right - two WHOLE hours without a cigarette. After that, I started again.

I must add, the only reason that I quit for two whole hours was because the session lasted an hour and a half, and it was a thirty minute drive home (where my cigarettes were). I couldn't wait to get there, either.

The hypnosis session was actually very relaxing, and I did emerge from the office feeling like a new person; I felt like a person who was dumb enough to think that someone telling me that smoking isn't a physical need, but a mental one, would help me kick a very physical addiction.

I did everything he told me to do. I relaxed. I counted. I counted some more. I felt the "tingle" and I listened to the suggestions. I really thought it would work.

The hypnotist gave me a compact disc with a recording of his voice and said that I was to listen to it whenever I got the urge to smoke. I popped that bad boy into the CD player as soon as I got in the car. Then I started laughing - you know that edgy, nervous laugh you're capable of when you are so frustrated by wanting a cigarette? That's the laugh I laughed. Then I chewed my fingernails the rest of the way home.

I made a beeline for that front door. My husband must have thought he was being rushed by a linebacker - you should have seen him dive for cover. "Didn't work, did it?" he asked, leaning on the doorjamb as I frantically searched for the cigarettes I had asked him to hide from me. I rewarded his question with a feral glare.

When I found them and lit one, I told him I'd go and buy those nicotine patches the next day. I assured him that I wanted to quit, but that I couldn't do it all in my head.

I never bought any nicotine patches.

Quitting smoking is possible. But through hypnotism? Nope; not for me. I'll stick to the more traditional, tried-and-true Cold Turkey Method. Besides, I quit every night before I go to bed - I just start again in the morning. Maybe one morning I'll have the wherewithal not to start smoking again.

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